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Extra long-haul: The 10 furthest airline routes
At 06:26 local time on 1 October, the first Airbus A380 to serve the world’s longest scheduled air route – Dallas Fort Worth to Sydney – touched down in Australia’s largest city. It marked the 60th anniversary of Qantas’s transpacific service to the USA, which began with a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation flight from Sydney to San Francisco in 1954. The Australian flag-carrier is operating the DFW flight six times a week with the A380, which replaced a Boeing 747-400ER on the route. (www.flightglobal.com) Más...[This poster has been suspended.]
In 1976, Pan Am introduced the Boeing 747 SP, a special performance aircraft that extended the range of commercial flights and allowed Pan Am to inaugurate non-stop flights to the far corners of the world. On May 1, 1976, Pan Am's "Liberty Clipper," one of the new 747 SP's, left New York and travelled east on a record breaking around the world trip. With ninety-six passengers and only two re-fueling stops -- at Delhi and Tokyo -- the flight arrived back in New York only forty-six hours from departure, besting the previous mark by some fifteen hours. The airline celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 1977 with another first, this time around the flight covered 26,300 miles in a little more than fifty-four hours.
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/panam/history.html
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/panam/history.html
Interesting that the quoted distances are all within 819km from the longest to #10 the HKG-EWR flight.
It would be interesting to know how many are capacity limited (i.e.. not all seats available) to make the flights non stop. If the ticket price was right (for us poor coach flyers)it may be a good strategy to target these flights rather than take a connection at a cheaper price!
It would be interesting to know how many are capacity limited (i.e.. not all seats available) to make the flights non stop. If the ticket price was right (for us poor coach flyers)it may be a good strategy to target these flights rather than take a connection at a cheaper price!
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